This week we continue our journey from Windsor to Cookam and Marlow. With all the issues we had before now we are cruising the Thames smoothly without any ...

Some problems come up and we are out of the water again we have loads of jobs to do to get our boat running again. We fit new seacocks as the water line is a ...

This week we take you on a tour of our barge.  From Top to tail we go through the whole boat explaining all its secrets. We are so pleased with the results of ...

This is our first voyage and it does not go according to plan ...nor does the second one! But a day later and we are on our way up river if only for a mile or ...

Yes we do manage to get in to the water this week, after fitting the new bow thruster and filling the area under the bed with 1.4 tons of ballast. ...

It was a rush all week on the boat, it is unbelievable the amount of small things to do! It was so much that we didn't record allot of content. But a lot was ...

Things are at last starting to come all together. This week we get stuck in to the electrics in the Bow locker, the Windlass it is working and we manage to ...

We filled up the water tanks just to find out that it was leaking from the fitting in the tank. The second flood was on the engine room when we were filling ...

Lots to do and no time left. We are booked to go in the water next week on Thursday. We get stuck in to cleaning the boat and polish the metal bits that we ...

With a shortage of cable crimps and sleeving it all gets a bit desperate to finish the electrics.   We then have a bit of a blow when we get the cost for the ...

We finally put the exhaust system to bed. Our flexible pipe from MasterFlex arrived and Carla and I fit the system together. We are very pleased to have ...

We finally get around to cutting the prop shaft and attaching the prop to the engine. We spend some time aligning the two up before moving on to the ...

We get heavily into the plumbing this week.  So many different kind of pipes, it’s unbelievable! We might have around 20 different pipes, would you believe ...

This has worked out to be the lowest point on this project. We had a big upset with the boatyard which we are choosing not to mention for now and at least ...

YES. This week we finish the floor in the pilot house.  Much more difficult than we expected, like everything on the boat. Turned out to be a huge job because ...

This week we get in to finishing the Pilot House! The bits that we have been working on for so long are just starting to come up to life. It’s like putting a ...

To our surprise we get ahead of ourselves when Carla gets stuck into the Pilot House this week. She manages to do half of it and then runs out of materials. So ...

What a week, Carla gets her thumb caught in the door, Ouch... that hurts! And Simon cut his finger on the circular saw. So yes, luck wasn't really on our side ...

#newplans #boatproject #workingon boats We take a new look at the back cabin and decided that the layout is not good. After some deliberation we stripp it all ...

#toiletsonboats #poopingontheboat #blacktanks This week we finish the sidewalls in the Saloon which made the boat look much bigger. We put in a skin fitting ...

#boatwork #boatyard #workinghard This week we finally get home from our trip to Portugal. After 8 weeks we go down to the boat yard to find the yard flooded ...

#catlove #catboy #catsailor #loveyourpet This week we make a tribute to Dobby! Our baby passed away this week…everything was so quick, in less than two and a ...

#boatcost #howmuch #bargecosts This week we tell you how much is costing to fit out our Barge. We are keeping a spread sheet with all the costs so we will know ...

#wegotit #whatnow #vanlife Having recovered from the virus, finishing our quarantine and get a negative result, we are free again to have a second try to go to ...